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Comment by burntoutcase | Hacker News Reader

Fair warning to anybody thinking of using Librem Social: it's a Mastodon instance whose management seems willing to tolerate speech that most of the rest of the Fediverse finds objectionable. Don't expect that you'll be able to interact with users of other Mastodon instances, as their admins may refuse to federate with Librem Social.

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The "main" mastodon.social instance isn't choosing to ban them at this time: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/102180995301556021

Also, from the article: "If you are being harassed, or witness online harassment, block and flag the offending user and a moderator will take action. We do not tolerate harassment. This is an area of well-established rights, Librem Social is built on and with the expert policies of ACLU, FSF, and EFF, while avoiding the pitfalls of ham-fisted censorship we all dislike from Big Tech."

And the link to their Code of Conduct is here: https://librem.one/conduct/

Some elements of the Mastodon community are a bit... extreme in their views on moderation, but it doesn't seem like Purism is going outside the standard faire here.

>The "main" mastodon.social instance

mastodon.social isn't even the largest mastodon instance[0]. Even aside from that The majority of active accounts are hosted on small or personal instances, especially for English speaking accounts.

>extreme in their views on moderation

IIRC instance admins had an issue with the purism instance not actively going against hate-speech. I'd hardly call that extremist.

[0]From https://instances.social/list

Instance Users

DOWN pawoo.net 549417

DOWN mastodon.social 321500

DOWN mstdn.jp 191718

UP switter.at 118232

It isn't extreme, statistically speaking, but at least it isn't what I would want in a social network. If I wanted a heavily censored network I would just use Twitter.

>it doesn't seem like Purism is going outside the standard faire here.

This isn't true. Most online communities at least ban outright bigotry and the Librem CoC does not. Banning harassment isn't the same thing.

> Warning: it's a Mastodon instance whose management seems willing to tolerate speech that most of the rest of the Fediverse finds objectionable.

All right, so there is at least one good reason to use it over other instances.

I sounds like Gab and LS could be federated, so these communities could become very large.

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